Search Tag: birth defects

According to research
presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in San
Diego, parents-to-be living in poor or rural communities are less likely to
find out their baby has heart disease before birth as compared to those living
in more affluent or urban communities.
Ultrasound technology
has enabled the detection of birth defects...
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According to a new
analysis published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
in its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, more than one-fourth of privately
insured and one-third of Medicaid enrolled women of childbearing age filled prescriptions
for narcotic painkillers between 2008-2012.
Prescription narcotic
painkillers such as...
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